Congress MLA and ex-speaker KR Ramesh Kumar has apologised for the rape remark he passed on the Karnataka assembly floor on Thursday. He said that if the statement hurts the sentiments of women, he has no problem apologising.
“I apologise from the bottom of my heart,” he said.
KR Ramesh had made a controversial rape comment on the floor of the house with Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri laughing away at it.
He has faced criticism from all quarters including from within the Congress party.
An MP from Karnataka, Syed Nasser Hussain is the latest to have condemned the statement. “The Assembly was going on and such thing shouldn’t have been said,” Hussain said.
Congress MLA Dr Anjali Nimbalkar took to social media demanding that the House should apologise to the entire womanhood for such obnoxious and shameless behaviour.
This is however not the first time that the Congress MLA has passed such a remark. In February 2019, when KR Ramesh Kumar was the assembly Speaker, he had courted controversy by saying that he felt like a “rape victim”.
